Health

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The national COVID-19 caseload rose to 11,515,423 with 558 new cases recorded on November 29, according to the Ministry of Health. With 129 patients given the all-clear during the day, the number of recoveries rose to 10,608,342. Meanwhile, there are 74 patients needing breathing support. Two deaths from COVID-19 were recorded in the past 24 hours. The total fatalities rose to 43,172. With 54,642 doses administered on November 28, the total number of doses of COVID-19 vaccines injected rose to 264,208,983./. VNA … [Read more...] about Vietnam logs 558 new COVID-19 cases on November 29

Since the end of 2018, the application of the hotline repair technology has brought many practical benefits and effects in repairing and maintaining the power system as it can manipulate directly on the grid without power cuts. The Hung Yen hotline repair team works on the grid Works on the grid have been actively and flexibly implemented by the Hung Yen hotline repair team, contributing to saving time, reducing incidents and minimizing power losses. It has also contributed to increasing labor productivity, enhancing power supply reliability and improving indicators in electricity access to meet the increasing demand of users, especially agencies and trade and production units. The Hung Yen hotline repair team currently has nine members, who were carefully recruited, meet health conditions and have high professional knowledge and good skills. To meet job requirements, they were sent to train at the request of the Northern Power Corporation under the Vietnam … [Read more...] about Hung Yen Power Company strives for reliable power supply

The scene of the meeting. (Photo: SGGP) That is the information given by the Ministry of Finance at a conference with ministries, agencies, and localities on the disbursement of foreign-funded public investment capital in the first 11 months of 2022 and solutions to accelerate disbursement in the last months of 2022, taking place on the morning of December 1. The accumulated disbursement plan for public investment loans from foreign capital in 11 months reached 26.06 percent, with VND9.01 trillion. The disbursement of ministries and agencies was VND4.15 trillion, reaching 35.17 percent, and the disbursement of localities was VND4.86 trillion, reaching 21.34 percent. The disbursement rate of public investment from domestic capital was about 60 percent of the plan. By November 30, the Ministry of Finance had received a proposal to reduce the capital plan of eight out of 13 ministries and agencies with a total proposed decrease of VND3.68 trillion, not including VND250 billion of … [Read more...] about Six ministries, four localities see zero percent disbursement rate

The Ho Chi Minh City official applauded the establishment of a representative office of Leipzig city in the southern economic hub, expressing the hope that the office will contribute to further promoting trade and investment cooperation between the two sides. The municipal authorities will create favorable conditions for German businesses to invest and do business in  the locality, he stated, adding that Leipzig has strengths in industry, information technology and education, and these are also the areas which Ho Chi Minh City wants to develop. He thanked Leipzig’s authority for supporting Ho Chi Minh City in training, and sharing professional experience with local hospitals. He said Ho Chi Minh City is focusing on developing high-quality human resources, and has also been implementing projects related to digital transformation and development of smart cities, so the city wishes to receive more support from Germany in those fields. For his part,  Bonew affirmed the establishment … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City eyes stronger cooperation with Leipzip of Germany

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is to work on a law on medical devices to increase efficiency of state management and create more favourable conditions for businesses. The focus is expected to be market authorisations (MAs) and drug tenders. Some legal barriers are expected to be settled imminently when in early November, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam signed Resolution No.144/NQ-CP on ensuring drugs, medical equipment, and reimbursement of healthcare costs and health insurance. The government asked the ministries of health, finance, and planning and investment to quicken amendment and supplementation of legal documents related to purchasing, tenders, manufacturing, and import of drugs and medical devices to deal with the legal barriers. Decree 98 will affect medical devices from various major markets, Le Toan The MoH is asked to work with the Ministry of Justice and other relevant ministries and agencies on preparation for building of draft amendments to the Law on … [Read more...] about Hopes rise for legal medical reform

Marketing authorisations (MAs) have been a pressing issue among multinationals and the Vietnamese government and the Ministry of Health (MoH) has made a number of actions to deal with it. What is the current situation? Tran Ngoc Anh, representative of the US-ASEAN Business Council Member companies of the US-ASEAN Business Council highly valued the issuance of Resolution No.12/2021/UBTVQH15 at the end of 2021, which enabled the continued use of MAs scheduled to expire before the end of 2022. The MoH then issued a list of about 10,000 drugs with MAs expired in 2021 and extended until the end of 2022, thus creating favourable conditions for the drugs to continue their imports into Vietnam and ensuring supply for hospitals to meet examination and treatment demands. Until now, all the issues related to MA for the drugs in 2022 have been dealt with. However, starting from January 2023, these 10,000 drugs and around 8,000 others will then expire. We are very concerned about … [Read more...] about The legal adaption measures expected from pharma groups